Wichita eagle., 1887-08-12
The Atcaison Times has suspended.

The Atchison Times has suspended. !
never survived after that lengthy quarre
with the Champion
:. The Garden City council is now receiv
t ing propositions for the establishment o
e electric light works
The glass works at Fort Scott are wei
under way. Twenty five tenements ar.
being erected for employees.
The city council of Lawrence recently
increased its appropriation for the public
library from 81, 900 to $500.
St. Louis Catholic college at Atchison is
to be built on the old court house grounds.
The building will cost 5000.
Burglars have become so daring and
burglaries SO numerous at Atchison that
vigilance committees are organizing.
A large academy-and a colleges to
be built at Hiawatha. The sum of
$25 900 has already been subscribed
1t is reported that the star mail routes in
Kansas are TO have general overhauling
with view to securing better mail ser
vice.
Halstead raised $1,000 for new Meth
odist church. 1t was contributed at the
camp meeting, and the amount raised in an
hour.
At Great Bend soft water is found at a
| depth of from 65 to IS feet. and almost
every well In town is down to this kind of
| water.
At Coolidge, Kansas, near the Colorado
border, is flowing well of cool, clear wa
ter sending forth As gallons per minute.
The boring is 237 feet deep.
Dwight. the new Rock Island town that
recently induced train load of Topeka
excursionists to invest in town lots, is soon
to have a new S., 600 grain elevator.
Three hundred citizens of Topeka have
pettioned the council of that city to abol-
ish the police court and city Jail, and to re-
peal all ordinances requiring fines to be
worked out.
An Argentine company has undertaken
to make the Kansas river navigable for
sixteen miles from its mouth. The COM
paty proposes dredging the river and US
ing the sand
The Ottowa. city council has passed an
ordinance making 1t crime for any news
paper to publish a lottery advertisement.
A city council is becoming quite legisla-
tive, when they encroach on the legisla-
lures work.
One in looking over the lists of candi-
dates for register Of deeds is not long in
drawing the conclusion that Kansas is pos
sessed of something phenomenal in the
boom line. This, of all other county Of
fees is besieged by the most aspirants.
A company known as the Clairmont
Land and Irrigation Co. has been organized
in Clark county with headquarters at
Englewood to irrigate in that region from
the waters of the Cimarron river. Col. E.
D. Perry will irrigate about 4, 600 acres of
his own land
The colored mans state convention, ap-
pointed for August 10, at Topeka, has been
postponed until September %. All perma
nent ministers and leading men of the race
throughout the state are considered mem
bers and are requested to be present. The
convention Is non-political and undenomi-
national, but for the interest of the colered
people of the state.
The Lawrence Tribune says: Owing
to the low stage of the river the water sup
piled by the water works is simply abomin-
able. 1t is hardly wet, and too nasty to
sprinkle lawns with. A tubful of 1t allow
ed to stand in the sun few hours becomes
covered with dirty, frothy substance like
soapsuds. The water company will have
to supply the city with better water in Or
der to fill their contract with the CITY,"